Frequently Asked Questions
How do I create an account?
Click the "Sign Up" button in the navigation bar. After that, you can update your profile and add any links you would like. It takes less than 1 minute to setup an account.
Is BeeSocial free?
It is free to create a profile on BeeSocial because we believe that everyone should have the ability to easily create a place on the internet to highlight their unique talents. However, we reserve the right to charge for premium features in the future to create a sustainable business model and ensure that BeeSocial can cover hosting, database, email sending, marketing, and customer support costs.
How is BeeSocial different than LinkedIn?
BeeSocial is a privacy-first platform for sharing your personal links and skills. It focuses on learning and sharing. It also will never sell your data to third parties, build an internal ad platform, or train your data for AI. Read more in the BeeSocial manifesto.
How is BeeSocial different than LinkTree, Bento, etc?
Other link aggregation sites are focused on influencers, celebrities, and companies. They are mostly a marketing tool to help sell more services pr tracking conversion rates. BeeSocial is a site designed to celebrate learnings without pretension. It is a place to find others who are passionate about the tech you enjoy to use, and maybe learn about something new -- not sell the latest fad.
Will you use this data for training AI?
Absolutely not. BeeSocial will never use your data for training AI. We also attempt (to the best of our ability) to prevent AI bots from scraping BeeSocial. While we understand the usefulness of large language models, machine learning algorithms, natural language processing, etc, we also believe in the power and uniqueness of creative works and we will not commodify creativity.
Is BeeSocial opensource?
BeeSocial is currently not opensource. Although we strongly believe in the power of opensource we also want to build something that is sustainable for us to run for the long-term. In our experience, asking for donations does not work especially well. We might opensource the code in the future, but for now, we are focused on building the best product we can, and we believe keeping the source closed is the way to do that.
What if someone is impersonating me? How do I report a profile?
If you believe that someone is impersonating you or there is bullying, harassment, etc, please report the profile.
Who is building BeeSocial?
BeeSocial is built by Adam and Sangeeta. Read more about the team.